Eighty-five-mm anti-aircraft guns, 127-mm naval guns, and 100-mm mortars launched a fierce artillery bombardment of all the batteries in Edo Bay, and the rumbling sound of artillery broke the calm in the bay.

For the first time, Edo, the capital of half a century, was invaded by foreign enemies.

The whistling shells continued to hit the forts, and the sound of huge explosions resounded throughout Edo Castle, alarming the Edo shogunate and the common people of the entire city, and the war that had been feared for a long time finally came.

Under the heavy artillery fire of the Tence army, the fort in Edo Bay quickly collapsed and was destroyed, and the more than 100 remaining warships of the shogunate naval division near the port launched a decisive charge against the Tence army.

The naval fleet of the Tence Army was heading in the direction of the harbor as it launched an artillery bombardment on the shogunate naval warships that rushed over.

With a rate of fire of 450 rounds per minute, the 37-mm antiaircraft guns became the main force of the shelling, and more than 100 sail warships were hit by the rain of small shells, and they were shot and sunk one after another.

The huge figure of the warship of the Tiance Army Navy, the terrifying lethality, the civilian and merchant ships in the startled harbor scattered and fled, and the slow ones were also cared for by the artillery fire, and then sank to the bottom of the sea.

Poor Japanese fishermen, rowing hard, tried to avoid the huge ships rushing like mountains.

However, the speed of the warships of the Tiance Army was too fast, and it was not comparable to manpower at all, and one after another the fishing boats were pushed into the air by the huge waves set off by the battleships, and then swept to the bottom of the ship.

After approaching the port of Edo, all kinds of artillery on the warships of the Tiance Navy began a frantic shelling of the port, and the warehouses, warehouses, houses, and barracks became the targets of shelling and were destroyed one after another.

A group of thousands of port guards rushed towards the port with a shout, intending to use their arms as a car, but they also flew flesh and blood under the rain of shells.

The dock landing ships and passenger and cargo ro-ro ships docked at the port one after another, and the Tiance Army began to land amid the rumbling cannons.

The artillery fire on the warships began to spread, and the residential areas near the port, the residential areas of Edo Castle Town, and the Edo Castle were all under artillery fire. More than a hundred mortars of two calibers at the disposal of the Navy, thirty-six self-propelled howitzers that landed first, also poured fire on these areas.

The frenzied artillery fire turned these areas into a living hell, and the slight wind blew from the sea, sending a strong smell of gunsmoke.

Standing on the foredeck of the tall dock landing ship, Wang Yue watched with great interest the scene of the shelling of Edo.

I Qing Dynasty introduced Buddhism to the steppe, and as a result, the fighting spirit of the Mongols was abolished. Jianzhen brought Buddhism to Japan, and it is known how much it played a role. It's still the same truth, a bad guy is a bad guy, and he is a bad guy in Nima wherever he puts it, and he won't change because of the camp.

Is it cruel? Perhaps, as long as you are a Chinese, as long as you know a little about history, it is not difficult to understand what this neighbor around you is.

Therefore, for the shelling of the Edo civilian area, Wang Yue did not have any psychological burden at all, and for the officers and soldiers of Tiance, this was a battle of punishment, and the Tiance army could not be violated.

The continuous explosions and the wooden Japanese houses reacted to each other, and countless flames broke out in the Edo area, and in the black smoke billowing out, columns of smoke obscured the sky, and Edo ignited a fire, and the Tence army gradually stopped shelling.

Wang Shaobao was a kind man after all, so he didn't throw incendiary bombs to bombard Edo, otherwise Edo would really be burned.

After the bombardment, the Tence army landed one after another, waiting for the reaction of the Edo shogunate.

At this time, Edo Castle, castle town, and port residential areas were already in shambles, and smoke and fire were everywhere in the ruins, and more people were desperately fighting the fire.

According to later statistics by historians of the Chinese Empire, more than 68,000 houses were destroyed and burned, nearly 100,000 people were killed, and hundreds of thousands of people were left homeless.

Interestingly, in this time and space, most Japanese believe that the Edo shogunate's improper measures caused the invasion of the Tence Army, which was the key point that triggered the war. History, that's it, whoever wants to come to Japan.

More historians have focused on the shogunate's reaction to the battle, arguing that this was the key to shaping the next 500 years of Japanese history. Well, this is a mainstream view, which shows that the sensationalism is still in the minority.

After the Tence Army landed, no further action was taken against Edo Castle, and the Tokugawa shogunate, headed by Tokugawa Iemitsu, spent a long day in panic, hesitation, and quarrels.

At this time, the Edo shogunate was divided into the castle defenders and the escape factions, and in the end, the castle defenders prevailed because Tokugawa Iemitsu could not abandon Edo.

Japan was not a centralized country, Edo was the foundation of the Tokugawa family, and by abandoning Edo, the Tokugawa family lost its ruling base, could no longer suppress the daimyo in various places, and at the same time gave up the wealth accumulated for half a century.

Therefore, if Edo is abandoned, the Tokugawa family will come to an end, which is also the reason why Wang Yue did not attack Edo immediately, because he knew that it was impossible for Tokugawa Iemitsu to run.

After the noisy shouting, the defending faction changed to the surrendering faction, and the combat effectiveness of the Tence army was obvious, and Edo Castle could not be held at all.

The fire was still being fought inside and outside the city, and after an all-nighter, the people of the shogunate were still deliberating.

"What's next?" This was a question that Tokugawa Iemitsu asked repeatedly, and he felt that he could not say the word "surrender", and he hoped that his subordinates would bring his meaning forward.

"Let's make peace! Everyone here has already seen how fierce the Tiance Army is, and it is not a shame to surrender to them. Katsuo Nakatsui closed his eyes in pain, and finally said what Tokugawa Iemitsu wanted to hear the most.

"I'm sorry for betraying your trust. If the peace talks fail, I will thank the world by disembowelment. lest the Japanese people fall into endless war. Tokugawa Iemitsu quickly took over and expressed his attitude.

In fact, the shogun did not care about the life and death of the people, which is the same as the fact that Emperor XX in World War II did not care about the life and death of the Japanese people.

The shogun was concerned with his dominance over the country, after all, the nominal ruler of Japan was the emperor, and the shogun was only acting on his behalf.

To maintain one's dominance, it is always the first priority.

Emperor XX during World War II was also a way, when the atomic bomb did not fall, he shouted that the whole people would be shattered, and he would let the US military die a million. After the atomic bomb fell, the surrender edict was twisted out.